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 Package: projpred
 Encoding: UTF-8
 Title: Projection Predictive Feature Selection
-Version: 2.10.0
+Version: 2.10.0.9000 
 Date: 2025-12-05
 Authors@R: c(person("Juho", "Piironen", role = c("aut"),
                     email = "juho.t.piironen@gmail.com"),
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 If you read this from a place other than <https://mc-stan.org/projpred/news/index.html>, please consider switching to that website since it features better formatting and cross-linking.
 
+# profpred 2.10.1.9000
+
+## Major changes
+
+## Minor changes
+
+## Bug fixes
+
+
 # projpred 2.10.0
 
 ## Major changes